The newest addition to the iPhone family has created quite a buzz and there are no brownie points in guessing that everyone saw it coming. While the USB Type C ports and the device’s overheating are currently the two major talking points, over the past few days, we have witnessed another topic that frankly doesn’t even deserve that much limelight.
It all started when a popular smartphone tipster “UniverseIce” simply tweeted that “iPhone15 Pro still only has a refresh rate of 80Hz in most cases”. However, this gave the media enough ammunition to stir up a new controversy of sorts. They simply ignored the last two words from its sentence and published numerous articles stating that “iPhone 15 Pro only runs at maximum 80Hz refresh rate”.
These are usually those media outlets who are always on the lookout for the perfect opportunity to bash the Cupertino giant’s offerings [and no, I’ll not favor or criticize Apple here, I will just be stating the facts!].
iPhone 15 Pro runs on 80Hz Refresh Rate mostly & it’s no big deal!
Anyways, coming back to the point, why this shouldn’t be a topic of debate? Well, this is because of how refresh rate tends to work on smartphones, not only on iPhones but also on Android. They are dynamically programmed, in other words, will increase or decrease depending on the tasks that you are currently carrying out.
For instance, if you are playing a game then it would spell out a graphics/resource-intensive task and hence the frame rate will automatically increase up to 120Hz. On the other hand, if you are just browsing through an article or watching YouTube videos, then the frame rate might trickle down to around 60FPS.
During the normal usage of your iPhone 15 Pro, the system tends to keep the refresh rate at around 80Hz so as to maintain an equilibrium between the usage fluidity and the overall battery exhaustion. The major reason why all this is down is to preserve the battery life in the short as well as the long run.
So while the refresh rate could go down all the way up to 1hz and then increase up to the maximum possible 120Hz, it’s all taken care of by the OS, and one shouldn’t make a deal out of it, because seriously there’s anything significant going on here. This is how the refresh rate tends to work across all iPhones to date and will continue to work in the future ones as well.
